Am browsing a Victorian sewing manual, as I am wont to do. Have one of those little decorative multi-tier tea service or cake stands taking up space in the cupboard, unused? Well, do the Victorians have a solution for you!
Embellish the heck out of the contraption and put some sewing things on it. 😆
Meanwhile. There's a bunch of embroidery stitches and plenty of designs I've never seen in this book I'm now browsing. Here's a pretty conventional but absolutely lovely satin & crewel stitch sampler to entice you. "Art in needlework", 1900.
https://archive.org/details/artinneedleworkb00dayliala/artinneedleworkb00dayliala/mode/2up?view=theater
Of further delight: There's a lot of photos of tiny little bits of embroidery and at least one of them is blurry as heck and out of focus, so at some point the people making the book probably only had that one photo and it would have been a huge hassle to get another, so they just went "ah, fuck it" and put the blurry photo in. Into the long and detailed book they probably spent so much time on already. 😆
Who among us has never had that impulse! I love humans being humans through the ages!
@weilaverdui I have not slept very many hours and my reading comprehension also is not great.
I wanted to use a blob-emoji to convey my tiredness and meltiness, but there is not one for my needs. This made me unreasonably upset.
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